[patch 1/6] tty_port: allow a port to be opened with a tty that has no file handle

[Samuel Thibault]

John Covici, on sam. 25 févr. 2017 23:30:45 -0500, wrote:
> I wonder if applications should be allowed to open the tty?  What if
> you had a speech dispatcher serial driver or some such?

If you let an application send data in the middle of what speakup sends,
it'd get mixed, and who knows how the synthesizer will behave or even
brick...

Really not a good idea :)

Applications can emit synthesis via /dev/synth, there is the speechd-up
speech dispatcher module for that.

Samuel